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• Each chapter is introduced by an editor’s essay that places the readings into context and highlights their central ideas and findings.

• Division into three historical periods emphasizes both the changes and continuities in American urban politics over time.

• The reader is the perfect complement for Judd & Swanstrom's City Politics: The Political Economy of Urban American, 6/e, also available in a new edition.

New To This Edition

• New readings explicitly examine the impact of globalization on American urban politics.
• The text offers a new emphasis on the recent issues facing cities and suburbs that are altering patterns of conflict and governance: identity and culture, immigration, privatization, terrorism and security, disaster politics, and other critical topics.
• Focuses on the imperatives of growth and the imperatives of governance as central themes that explain the changes and continuities in American urban politics over time.
• Highlights the new interdependencies in the emerging metropolis that are profoundly changing urban politics and altering the direction of public policy.
• To see which selections are new to this edition see the Table of Contents.  New readings are marked with a [NEW] annotation.

Table of Contents

Introductory Essay: Governing the Metropolis in the Global Era

PART 1: GLOBALIZATION AND THE ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE

Chapter 1. The Politics of Urban Development

Editors’ Essay. Entrepreneurial Cities

1          Paul E. Peterson, The Imperative of Growth

2          Clarence N. Stone, Urban Regimes

3          Richard C. Wade, The Urban Frontier

4          [NEW] Mark Alan Lowes, Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares

Chapter 2. Cities in the International Marketplace

Editors’ Essay. The New Urban Economy

5         [NEW] H.V. Savitch and Paul Kantor, The Great Transformation and Local Choices

6          Richard Foglesong, When Disney Comes to Town

7          Paul Kantor and H.V. Savitch, Can Politicians Bargain with Business?

Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Urban Culture

Editors’ Essay. Cultural Strategies of Urban Development

8          [NEW] Richard Florida, The Power of Place: The Creative Class

9          Elizabeth Strom, Culture, Art, and Downtown Development

10        [NEW] Alison Isenberg, Downtown Culture

PART 2: GOVERNING THE MULTI-ETHNIC METROPOLIS

Chapter 4. The Cities: The Politics of Space, Race, and Ethnicity

Editors’ Essay. The Cities: Confrontation and Accommodation

11         Thomas J. Sugrue, Racial Confrontation in Post-War Detroit

12         Reuel Rogers, Minority Groups and Coalitional Politics

13         Harvey K. Newman, Race and the Tourist Bubble

Chapter 5. The Suburbs: The Politics of Space, Race, and Ethnicity

Editors’ Essay. Immigration and Seclusion in the New Suburbia

14        [NEW] Andrew Ross, Kinder, Gentler Government?

15         Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen, New Immigrants in Suburbia

16        [NEW] Eric Avila, Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles

17         Dolores Hayden, Planning Suburban Development: The Rise of the Mall

Chapter 6. The New Politics of Space

            Editors’ Essay. Fear and the Privatization of Urban Space

18         Mike Davis, Fortress Los Angeles

19         [NEW] Margaret Kohn, The Mauling of Public Space

20         [NEW] Peter Marcuse, Life in the Cities After September 11, 2001

21         [NEW] Dennis R. Judd, Visitors and Spatial Ecology of the City

PART 3: GOVERNING THE FRACTURED METROPOLIS

Chapter 7. Sprawl, Regionalism and the New Urbanism

Editors’ Essay. Governing the Sprawled Metropolis

22         Myron Orfield, Building Consensus

23         [NEW] David Rusk, Growth Management: The Core Regional Issue

24         Fred Siegel, Is Urban Sprawl a Problem?

25         Dolores Hayden, The New Urbanism

Chapter 8. Federal-City Relations and the Capacity to Govern

            Editors’ Essay. City Politics in a Decentralized Federal System

26         Peter Eisenger, City Politics in the Era of Devolution

27         Pietro S. Nivola, Federal Prescriptions and City Problems

28         [NEW] Stephen D. Stehr, The Political Economy of Disaster Assistance

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American Urban Politics in a Global Age
Fifth Edition
Paul Kantor • Dennis Judd

Kantor and Judd have done it again! They have crafted the most comprehensive edited volume [on urban politics], presenting an array of urban scholarship which evolves from the historic antecedents of metropolitan America up to contemporary issues like sprawl and the big-box syndrome.

–John Bretting, The University of Texas at El Paso

This collection of readings–brought together by two leading scholars–represents the most important trends in urban scholarship today. Presented within a clear, thematic framework enhanced by insightful commentaries by the editors, these historical and contemporary readings reveal how the interaction of local, national, and international forces is reshaping the political landscape of urban America.

The fifth edition highlights the impact of globalization on urban politics and policy and explores the new issues in cities and suburbs that are altering patterns of conflict and governance, including identity and culture, immigration, privatization, terrorism, and security.

New Readings in the Fifth Edition
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